“Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.” LoveProblemOrderLove IsAnimalDialogue Author:Ernest Becker
“the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith” HumansProblemConditionsAnalysisExistentialismHuman ConditionExistentialDenial Of Death Book:The Denial of Death Source: The Denial of Death
“When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.” MenLoveProblemOrderLove IsAnimalGardenEssenceDialogueWedges Author:Ernest Becker
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.” WorldProblemResultsCommonCreativeKeysTypePoolLife Experience Book:The Denial of Death Source: The Denial of Death
“When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem” IfsMenRealProblemReligiousFailingModernProduceDespairBoundsSpheresCosmicHeroismImpossibilityModern ManPersonal LoveUtter Despair Book:The Denial of Death Source: The Denial of Death
